Girl With a Mortgage

Having grown up in Sydney, many Europeans or Canadians  or Canberrans (for example), might think I wouldn’t know anything about being cold. However, when you live in Sydney, in a house surrounded by trees, where you aren’t allowed to put on the heating and your dad wears a beanie 24-7, you can get preeeetty cold.
When [...]

Ok, so while I am fanatical about the library (millions of free books!!!) I also have a habit of reading my books over and over and over again, which is why buying the books I really like makes sense to me. But with new paperbacks sometimes asking over $30 (!) I don’t indulge often.
For my [...]

It is Budget day, and since it is an election year, the Budget should be very interesting indeed! Tax cuts are being heard of, but then also, claims that we are heading back towards the black (by 2012), – so I am not sure how that works.
Being a young, female, living in the city with [...]

Consider the following video, produced on behalf of the Dove company (owned by Unilever, who also owns Slimfast, but we will ignore that irony, because we can’t expect one business of a global company to agree with every single other little entity it owns).

I love this ad, and Dove’s other ads which take aim at [...]

Well, I am not sure about these Cole’s Curtis Stone recipes – meals for a family of 4 for under $10? I haven’t tried it myself, but I know that mince itself will cost around $6, so how they get all the rest for $4 I don’t know. I hope they aren’t using pet mince [...]